Netflix to lose share of top movies
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118050662

Netflix to Lose Starz Content on Feb. 29
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/306219/20120228/netflix-starz-10-best-titles-expiration-slideshow.htm

All These Movies Will Vanish From Netflix Tomorrow
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400893,00.asp

Did you wish you would’ve known beforehand that they were going to disappear?

With QueueView for iPhone, you’ll know! QueueView reveals the expiration date of any Netflix streaming movie. It will even sort your Netflix streaming queue by expiration date, so you can quickly see which movies you should watch next before they’re gone.

Purchase the in-app upgrade and gain the ability to search the Netflix streaming catalog, add and remove movies, and post a link to movies to your Facebook news feed. The Facebook feature is great for when you want to let your friends know about a good movie before it expires.

Another useful feature: move to the top. If your queue has a lot of items, it’s frustrating to scroll through the list on your TV trying to find something. Just pull out your iPhone or iPad, search your queue, and move the movie to the top and you’ll find it right away.

QueueView is available now in the App Store!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/queueview/id482965016?mt=8

QueueView was created by Stefanik Software. QueueView icon designed by Brian Stefanik. Stefanik Software has one other app in the App Store, InstaBrowser, an Instagram viewer for iPad. Steven Stefanik is the owner and sole developer at Stefanik Software, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

Another update: the ability to move a movie to the top of your queue. If you have over 100 movies in your queue, they can be hard to find on your Roku, AppleTV, or Xbox. Instead, search your queue in QueueView, move the movie you want to watch to the top of your queue, and then you can easily select it on your TV to watch.

Get QueueView 1.3 here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/queueview/id482965016?mt=8

If you enjoy QueueView, please rate and review in the App Store. Every little bit helps!

I still have lots more ideas I want to build into QueueView, and I intend to continue to release regular updates.

https://github.com/samvermette/SVProgressHUD

Super simple to use. It displays very nice looking loading/wait screens while data is being downloaded. I used it throughout QueueView.

Not only are they a form of media in the way that consumer software and games have always been considered media (they compete with TV, books, and music for consumers’ time and attention). But increasingly, they are also subsuming other forms of media.

So when will traditional media get it? Do any of the TV networks want to have anything to do with Facebook right now? I mean something innovative, not the token fan page that no ones care about. Do they want to let you watch their shows on your phone?

They don’t care about doing anything new on the social/mobile platforms, they only want you to be able to get their product on a TV on the prescribed time. For now they’re still winning at that game. But it won’t last. Like the magazine publishers and newspapers found out, the advertisers are the key, and they moved their dollars to better targeted and measurable ads on AdWords and Facebook. The TV advertisers are on their way out too.

But what about Netflix? They’ve been held back because of this stupid Video Privacy Protection Act, but that’s now been revised. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says Netflix is coming to Facebook. Watching, reviewing, rating, debating, and discussing movies are all social things that people want to do on Facebook. They enhance the experience.

Netflix is in the position to build the movie “app”, to build the platform that movies will be consumed and interacted with. This used to be the humble, disconnected DVD. I don’t think the studios have understood that yet, or they’re just afraid. Not only is the distribution channel completely changed, but so has what a movie/tv-series can actually be.

I’m expecting big things from Netflix in 2012.

https://parse.com

I haven’t used any of the iCloud API yet, but I’m guessing it is not this simple for data retrieval. I may have to try out this service for some of my future apps.

There is still a lot of work to be done building tools for iOS programming. All the free stuff in GitHub is great, but the projects can disappear. Backend services that you pay for, like parse, will be a growing market.

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Enjoy!